Word: bells
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Beggar boy, Joseph Curtin Sirena, maid to Pastors, Miss Elizabeth James Signer, Louanais, E. D. Dunn Vito, C. H. Hungeford 1G Frederico, Alan Thompson 1G A walter, L. N. Pearson 1G A doctor, R. W. Brink 2G The warner, W. N. Morse 3G Tourists, Miss Ellen McLoughlin, Miss Carola Bell, W. N. Morse 3G., G. B. Dunham 1G. A guide, W. E. Harris '20 A flower girl, Miss Carola Bell Men of Seville, James Shute, A. H. Starke '26, G. R. Dunham 1G, Philip Barry, J. T. Mahony 2G.B., R. W. Brink...
...moment, then slowly drew forth an old fable that had been handed down by his ancestors for centuries. In olden days, it was said, there had been an unknown spirit on that mountain, and every morning, just at sunrise, he would toll out a clangor on his bell. Once, people had believed that he held court at that hour, but even after the court had vanished into dust, the bell-ringer had been faithful to his task; until one day after a last faint peal, the sound had died away and the bell was never heard again...
...perversion of fact. Senor Alvarotez, with great acumen, has been at work reconstructing this myth in the light of facts. On the will of the tower hung a small pla ue; its words, when deciphered accordign to the key furnished by the Bingham Expedition, read as follows: "Rising Bell. To be rung each morning at the rising of the sun". Then followed the date, in our calendar 1236 A. D. A minute examination of the chamber brought to light a collection of cracked and faded parchments, apparently of an official nature. The most interesting of these proved...
...Circle of the Elders has at hand a petition from the scholars to change the hour of the Rising Bell from sunrise to the fourth sun-mark thereafter. In view of the fact that the latter do not now attend upon their masters, nor have they for many years, until the later hour. The Circle is obliged to decide that no change can now be made for two causes...
This letter was dated 1372; the university ceased to exist early in the sixteenth century. From this information, aided by Talma's fable, Senor Alvarotez has deduced the following theory. The bell-ringer, no doubt, was a descendant of the one who received the letter. Even after the university had ceased to function, father and son had continued to ring the bell in the early hours of the morning; until this bellman, the last of his family, had died at his post. Cordially yours, J. BLATE-DUNCAN...